Monday, July 31, 2006

Deeply regret...omelet...eggs

As noted here, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Mackay has thus far restricted his own public statements on the Israel/Lebanon conflict to those previously stated by Condi Rice.Today MacKay will face questions from the opposition for the first time.In light of this, I have compiled the following helpful cheat sheet for him.

Bonus tip : Polling on Lebanese support for the Hezbollah resistance as reported by the Christian Science Monitor: an increase of 29% since February :

Shiite - 87%

Sunni - 89%

Christian - 80%

Druze - 80%

So if you wanted to finish on an upbeat note, Mr MacKay, you could point out that your government's support of the US/Israeli "Birth of a New Middle East" policy is helping to unite Sunnis, Shiites, and Christians in a common cause.

Or you could just quote Condi again : something about deeply regret...omelet...eggs.

Tuesday update - Two corrections required here :

A typo : Number of Israelis captured by Palestinians since 1994 : 1

And not doing my own fact checking : Shiite support for Hezbollah resistance :96.3%

11 comments:

Why would would you call palestinians in Isreali jails political prisoners ?Unless you are an Islamic terrorist you would know that those prisoners are in jail for comiting crime, not for their political views, unless you consider terrorism political expression ?

Blank57:Leaving aside for the moment the fact that terrorism, however desperate or heinous, obviously *is* a form of political expression, the reason I called them 'political prisoners' is because that's what the Israeli government calls them. They also call them "administrative security detainees", in order to distinguish them from the jailed Palestinians who have been brought to trial and charged. I did not use the larger figure that includes jailed Palestinian criminals, as it is not relevant here.

Peter Mackay restricting his own public statements on the Israel/Lebanon conflict to those previously stated by Condi Rice… There’s a winning solution for you, what a decisive way to make a stand Peter. Nobody’s listening to her, dumbass.

"Unless you are an Islamic terrorist you would know that those prisoners are in jail for comiting crime,..."

The fact that people are in custody charged with crimes means absolutely nothing, as we have already learned from the experience at Gitmo:

Most of the alleged al Qaeda and Taliban inmates at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are likely to be freed or sent to their home countries for further investigation because many pose little threat and are not providing much valuable intelligence, the facility's deputy commander has said.

All you need to do is Google on some combination of "guantanamo" and "innocent" to learn how many Gitmo detainees there are that the U.S. government openly admits have done nothing wrong, and are still sitting there, year after year.

So quit babbling on about things of which you are totally clueless. It's quite unbecoming.